With attacks evolving and becoming more sophisticated, Intel utilizes s a layered approach to security that helps IT management balance business risk. Intel IT crisis manager Steve Watson and senior incident commander Tom Weisser  presents the details.

Intel has teamed with leading companies and computer industry experts to publish a comprehensive IT Best Practices Series of books. The result is a single reference source for IT professionals who plan, develop, deploy, and manage Intel® Architecture-based e-Business environments. 

What are the benefits of Operating System Streaming?  Intel IT Systems Engineer Christian Black looks at OS streaming, one of the virtualization technologies.  He examines the pain of a failed hard drive and discusses Intel’s benchmarking of local drives verses a centralized virtual disk.

In this short “whiteboard chat”, Intel Systems Engineer Christian Black talks about a better way to deliver applications to end users.  He charts out how it works, and discusses the benefits.

In this latest issue of the Intel Premier IT Professional program’s IT best practice magazine, Intel and industry leaders provide insights on successful technologies and practices to get you started on your way to IT Utopia.  Highlights include an Intel Product Roadmap from two perspectives (”tops-down” from industry trends and “bottoms-up” from the microprocessor), an interview with Intel CIO John Johnson, and an article on how Sony Imageworks utilizes their 8500 core data farm.

In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel CIO John “JJ” Johnson talks about how Intel IT has upped the ante on the information aspect of IT while continuing to focus on technology. The components: a focus on design center efficiency, ERP replatforming, social media, and business process improvements.

In a point/counterpoint Intel Premier IT Professional magazine article, two Intel strategists look at the Intel product roadmap from opposing directions.  Is it the industry trends like virtualization, energy-efficient computing and cloud computing that are driving technology development? Or is it the increasing performance and capabilities offered by the latest microprocessors.  Read and then pick your side.

Intel Capital has a long history of investment in open source software companies, and has augmented that effort by establishing the Open Source Incubator Program. In this Intel Premier IT magazine article, Intel Capital says the time is ripe for accelerated adoption in the enterprise, calling open source a cornerstone of sound IT strategies.

Because our knowledge workers are also consumers of digital technology, our user experiences create new opportunities for innovation, enabling what we call the consumerization of IT.  “Digital natives”, who grew up surrounded by computers, MP3 players, mobile phones, and all the applications that go with them, are trendsetters and trend predictors.  They pick up on innovations and enthusiasm for them, advocating and using new technologies long before they catch on in the mainstream. This Intel Premier IT magazine article examines the ways Intel IT empowers these digital natives to conribute to the consumerization of IT and become enablers of new ideas.